StatCounter’s latest tracking shows Windows 11 has climbed to roughly the halfway mark of Windows desktop installs — a milestone that reflects accelerating migration away from Windows 10 as Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline approaches.
The headline numbers — what StatCounter...
august 2025
desktop market share
end of support
end of support date
esu
hardware refresh
hardware requirements
it admins
microsoft
microsoft windows
migration
migration planning
october 14, 2025
oempreloads
os market share
pc health check
release health
sampling bias
secure boot
statcounter
steam hardware survey
tpm 2.0
upgrade readiness
web analytics
windows 10
windows 11
windows 11 24h2
windows 11 adoption
windows 7
windows migration
windows os market share
On August 24, 1995, Microsoft unleashed a consumer operating system that would reshape everyday computing, not just as a technical milestone but as a cultural event: Windows 95 combined a sweeping user-interface overhaul, aggressive marketing and architectural changes that together accelerated...
32-bit architecture
air-gapped
backward compatibility
briefcase
consumer tech marketing
data migration
data traceability
dos compatibility
egg sorting
emulation
file explorer
hardware compatibility
industrial automation
industrial it
isolation networks
legacy software
legacy systems
long filenames
marketing campaign
modernization
oempreloads
operational continuity
os history
plug and play
preemptive multitasking
printer drivers
regulatory compliance
risk management
rolling stones start me up
security risk
start button
start menu
taskbar
user interface
virtualization
windows 95
windows ux evolution
wrapper app